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madville

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15. Won't have the votes in the Senate after 2018
Mon May 22, 2017, 11:33 PM
May 2017

The Republicans only have 8 seats up in 2018, 5 of those are considered very safe.

Say we do well and win 4 republican seats and lose none of the 26 we have to defend. We basically flip the current make up, it would then be 52 Democrats and Independents versus 48 Republicans. You think you could get 15 of them to vote to remove a Republican administration and install a Democratic one?

Nothing is impossible but I would say that scenario is very unlikely.

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